The Performance-Within-A-Play In French Classical Theater (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures) Cashman, Kimberly creator author text xxu 2004 monographic eng

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150 pages "Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater defines a new type of metadrama using Le Tartuffe as its paradigm and explores the complex, ambiguous, and enlightening relationships that metadrama maintains with the social and political orders. While metadramatic scenes are most often concerned with theater itself, the performance-within-a-play adopts an important function in the play's plot, and consequently, in the social world of the play.The performance-within-a-play is particularly associated by the classical playwrights with the family structure, with the class system, with women's social roles, and with the politics of absolutism."--Jacket. Kimberly Cashman Acting techniques Performing Arts Plays / Drama Performing Arts/Dance Continental European Drama Theater - Stagecraft 17th century 842.40924 CAS 9780820470603 0820470600 InACL 260927 20260927132836.0 220208 eng